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The Anti-Fur Campaign
Aims
The main aim of the anti-fur campaign is to end the use of animals for fur. This is based on the ethical standpoint that it
is unnecessary to cause animal suffering by breeding and trapping animals for fur while many alternatives are available
that do not cause cruelty and the taking of animal lives.
Additional aims of the campaign:
- to establish regulations and legislation that restrict and phase out the use of animals for fur
- to stimulate involvement of humane societies and groups in the campaign
Contents
The Fur Trade | Statistics | Legislation
Campaign Resources | Campaign Images and Photographs
The fur campaign takes a two-pronged approach:
Voluntary - seeking to influence consumers to stop buying furLegislative - seeking to achieve a legislative ban on the keeping of animals on farms for the production of fur and a legislative ban on the trapping or otherwise killing of wild animals for fur, combined with a prohibition of import from countries that do not meet such standards.
The voluntary shift in consumer attitude fuels the legislative campaign by increasing public awareness of the issue, heightening calls for change and changing consumers buying habits (decreasing fur production). This will result in an economically less viable industry which can be easier regulated and phased out.
The Voluntary Campaign
The main thrust of the voluntary campaign should be a public awareness campaign to educate the public about the
ethical problems of fur production in trapping and farming. The aim should be a total boycott of fur products. In order
to do this, it is necessary to disseminate information (including photographs, footage and facts) about trapping and fur
farming.
As consumer awareness increases and sales decrease further, these consumers should be mobilized to demand regulation and legislation which prohibits fur farming and trapping.
The Legislative Campaign
The main aim of the legislative campaign should be to bring about a ban on fur farming and trapping.
Secondary aims are:
- to regulate and restrict farming and trapping in order to achieve an improvement in welfare standards during the process of a phase-out
- restriction and phase-out of fur farming and trapping and use of certain traps on a local, state, province, national or international level
World Animal Net has adopted the fur campaign as one of its target campaigns because it recognizes that this is an international battle that could be won - if animal groups work together in a strong and concerted campaign.
